Job 20:5

20:5 that the elation of the wicked is brief, 1 

the joy of the godless 2  lasts but a moment. 3 

Matthew 13:20-21

13:20 The 4  seed sown on rocky ground 5  is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy. 13:21 But he has no root in himself and does not endure; 6  when 7  trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

1 tn The expression in the text is “quite near.” This indicates that it is easily attained, and that its end is near.

2 tn For the discussion of חָנֵף (khanef, “godless”) see Job 8:13.

3 tn The phrase is “until a moment,” meaning it is short-lived. But see J. Barr, “Hebrew ’ad, especially at Job 1:18 and Neh 7:3,” JSS 27 (1982): 177-88.

4 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

5 tn Grk “The one sown on rocky ground, this is the one.” The next two statements like this one have this same syntactical structure.

6 tn Grk “is temporary.”

7 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.